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Essay For Imba Application

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I am an achievement-oriented professional with the 12+ years of extensive background in higher education, nonprofit, healthcare, and pharmaceutical industries. U of I is my Alma Mater. With great pride and gratitude, I called Urbana-Champaign as my home for over 15 years. The community played an important role every achievement I experience today. When a friend recommended me to apply for the iMBA program, I immediately started the application.
Online learning is not new to me as I completed the online master degree program in Management Information System from UIS while working full time. Once again, I would like to partner with U of I to complete the program in 36 months. I am confident that I will be someone whom iMBA can gladly claim an …show more content…

My background also includes working at Carle Foundation Hospital where I led a campaign to save $10,000,000, and Veterinary Medical Databases as Manager of IT Services where I supervised the entire IT infrastructure, software developers, and IT projects. While in this position I supervised outsourced software developers on a project resulting in $50K savings. Overall, I was responsible for directing the company’s technology outlook.
In addition, I served as a trusted advisor, technology evangelist, and process improvement champion for the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Environment Health and Safety, the Graduate College, and Technology Services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While I was at U of I, directing a team of 20 IT professional, we created a new business model by using crowdsourcing methodology. We found $80,000 annual savings for the university and revolutionized the IT support. It was one of my favorite …show more content…

For example, leading a team of young professionals, we traveled to a country in central Asia to aid small businesses in increasing their organizational efficiency with automation and the use of modern technology.
People say that I am like a conductor who brings out hidden, creates talented teams, and induces enthusiasm into the teams. I bring to the cohort a wealth of practical knowledge in creative problem-solving and leading people to deliver products. I also bring the capabilities in financial planning, business plan development, investment modeling, portfolio planning and program/project lifecycles managements.
Achieving MBA has always been my top priority. As such, I have reviewed and researched many MBA programs across the country. I believe that iMBA offers the best mix of leadership, innovation management, and marketing. I am naturally a strategic thinker and analytical person. Ideation is my inherent personality traits. People often come to me for advice. Exchanging ideas and collaboration is one of my goals for applying to this program. My long-term vision is to help build a technology company in a country such as Kenya or Myanmar to create jobs to support the local

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